James Vernon (ed.)

Re-Reading the Constitution

New Narratives in the Political History of England's Long Nineteenth Century
Herausgeber: Vernon, James; James, Vernon

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Produktbeschreibung

A re-examination of the debates over the meaning of the English constitution, first published in 1996.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521589413
• ISBN-10: 052158941X
• Artikelnr.: 22525828

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; Notes on the contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Notes
towards an introduction James Vernon; 2. 'Our real constitution': trial
defence and radical memory in the age of revolution James Epstein; 3. The
English people and their constitution after Waterloo: parliamentary reform,
1815-17 Jonathan Fulcher; 4. Public opinion, violence and the limits of
constitutional politics Dror Wahrman; 5. Making room at the public bar:
coroners' inquests, medical knowledge and the politics of the constitution
in early nineteenth-century England Ian Burney; 6. Republicanism
reappraised: anti-monarchism and the English radical tradition, 1850-72
Antony Taylor; 7. The constitution and the narrative structure of Victorian
politics Patrick Joyce; 8. Narrating the constitution: the discourse of
'the real' and the fantasies of nineteenth-century constitutional history
James Vernon; 9. Gender, class and the constitution: franchise reform in
England, 1832-1928 Anna Clark; Index.